Biography John Marin

A prominent New York architect who became an artist, John Marin earned
a reputation for abstract watercolor paintings influenced by Cubism* and
Futurism*. He was one of the Taos, New Mexico Colony painters in the
late 1920s, and his work is credited as an important precedent to
Abstract Expressionism*.

Marin was born in Rutherford, New
Jersey, and grew up in nearby Weehawken. He attended the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts*, studying with Thomas Anshutz, then studied at
the Art Students League* in New York, and from 1905 to 1909, studied in
Europe. In Paris, he associated with the Fauvist circle.

He
had a long association in New York City with Alfred Stieglitz, who
exhibited his work,
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